dr-ask-the-right-question SKILL.md skillA
dr-ask-the-right-question from ahepi/deepreason is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahepi/deepreason/dr-ask-the-right-question@git:20260813.5683bc4Pins git:20260813.5683bc4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahepi/deepreason
- Path
.claude/skills/dr-ask-the-right-question/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260813.5683bc4, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 3, 2026
- Size
- 10,367 bytes
- Repository stars
- 141
- License
- MIT
Question discipline for working DeepReason - route every question to the cheapest authority (record, then framework, then operator), translate the operator's shorthand into typed obligations, and frame uncertainty as falsifiable forks. Load whenever an operator message is ambiguous or short, whenever any workflow phase says "stop and ask", whenever evidence contradicts your expectation, and at the start of any session run by a model that has not worked this repo before.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Ask the right question The two workflow families tell you what to PRODUCE. This skill tells you what to ASK, of whom, in what order — the reasoning that happens between an operator message and the first phase artifact. Working here fails in two ways: asking nothing (you invent facts and build on them) or asking the operator everything (their attention is the scarcest budget in the system). Both are the same mistake — a question routed to the wrong authority. ## 1. The three authorities, in cost order Every question has a cheapest competent authority. Ascend only when the cheaper one genuinely cannot answer. | Authority | Answers questions like | Cost | |---|---|---| | THE RECORD — `log.jsonl`, `objects/`, typed verdicts, blobs, instruments (`verify_root`, `tools/root_sweep.py`, `tools/docs_verify.py`, the gate) | what happened; which value was rejected; do two instruments agree; did anything move | a command | | THE FRAMEWORK — CLAUDE.md, `docs/map/` (Traps first), `docs/ERRATA.md`, the tranche ledgers (REQUEST/GOAL/PARKED), prior DELIVERY reconciliations | what is frozen; what has gone wrong here before; what did the operator already rule; where does X live | a file read | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahepi/deepreason/dr-ask-the-right-question@sha256:36f2d8880fce95e8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.5683bc4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Aug 13, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260813.5683bc4 latest | 2026-08-13 | 5683bc4 | 10,367 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.0effd7f | 2026-08-10 | 0effd7f | 10,449 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260803.b66b7f5 | 2026-08-03 | b66b7f5 | 9,811 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
ahepi/deepreason · 141 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xhpy46terpu2e6s7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahepi/deepreason/dr-ask-the-right-question GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/36f2d8880fce95e8e91a93c598ace6ab35d8af5eba8bf4eb9724904486abb615
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